Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Quote from this amazing video “A Theory of a System for Educators and Managers” where Deming and Ackoff discuss quality transformation by developing an understanding of the properties and powers of systems-oriented thinking…you can the read the original post from Curious Cat Management Improvement. Nov 2010 Great quote and video.

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Deming Team Building Constraint Video 98

Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

General Motors wasn’t my ideal workplace after having read Deming’s Out of the Crisis and learning a bit about Lean manufacturing in college. If possible, I wanted to work in something closer to the Deming environment. I was told that Dr. Deming had taught some workshops within GM, particularly the Powertrain division in the 1980s.

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Kaizen Deming Lean Manufacturing Handbook 28

Curious Cat

APRIL 28, 2015

I took this photo after presenting a Deming 2 1/2 day seminar in Boston (at the Boston Fine Arts Museum – see more photos ). And maybe I am wrong and they really have all sorts of great things they are doing to meet customer needs in innovative ways. The benefits they bring are very hard to calculate.

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Conference Innovation Transportation Software 40

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. Shewhart taught this iterative and incremental-development methodology to his mentee, W. They keep customers happier.

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Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

Top leaders required to develop a plan to demonstrate their advocacy for Quality Leadership methods and the goals of the transformation. Innovation and experimentation become organizational values. A mission statement is developed by the management team and shared with the department. Year seven. Improving Continuously.

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Case Study System Decentralization Management 40

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The classic method of segregating innovation to a single department, or to a process led by specialists, just isn’t fast enough any longer. What’s needed is a culture in which innovation is the mission of everyone, everywhere, every day. Most innovation methods don’t actually result in innovative solutions.

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Innovation Engineering CIO System 57

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

In my last post , I argued that you should start process innovation by asking front-line workers how to improve their jobs. It's not easy, to be sure, but some companies have managed to spur their employees to innovation by observing a few principles. By reducing survival concerns, Wiremold had freed people to think creatively.

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Attrition CFO Deming Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

In my last post , I argued that you should start process innovation by asking front-line workers how to improve their jobs. It's not easy, to be sure, but some companies have managed to spur their employees to innovation by observing a few principles. By reducing survival concerns, Wiremold had freed people to think creatively.

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Attrition CFO Deming Outsourcing 11

QAspire

AUGUST 3, 2010

Edwards Deming is widely famous for “Deming’s 14 points” and “Seven Deadly Diseases”. One of these deadly disease according to Deming is “ Running a company on visible figures alone ”. Deming opined that everything that is critical for business performance may not be measurable. Well said, Tanmay! Don’t Kill It!

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Deming Quality Blog Directory 158

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

Edwards Deming and encapsulated by Japanese car giant Toyota, whose quality circles, kaizen and takt time quickly spread throughout the manufacturing sector. This is a world that tries to overcome the innovator’s dilemma by learning new things even when their current strength remains powerful.

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Competitive Advantage Kaizen Technology Learning-by-Doing 50

Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

They develop action plans. One of the best summaries of Quality Management was written my Edward Deming: Create consistency of purpose toward the improvement of product and service, and communicate this goal to all employees. Move towards developing a long-term relationship with a single supplier. Training and development.

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Management CRM Objective Human Resources 40